Savage Henry

Mogwai on six music. Weird but strangely beautiful. Like a Hayao Miyazaki anime.

Sir, I applaud that.

It's an NL game: St Louis Cardinals versus the Chicago Cubs I think, which will be a good match-up.

Andy Kershaw's show on Radio 3... which should just about take me up to time for baseball.

Just finished watching a Japanese animation called Spirited Away on DVD, now I'm digging REM's Automatic For The People, which is slightly better than I thought.

I think it may be on again tonight... but don't quote me on that. It might be the Nick Drake one.

Just watched a pointless documentary about Nick Drake followed by an excellent one about Jeff Buckley on BBC4. To be followed by Rosanne Cash and Steve Earle at th cambridge Folk Festival.

Okay... very.

Big Iron by Johnny Cash, and I do not have the words to describe how moving it is.

Waiting Around To Die by Townes Van Zandt. Which will be followed by Give My Love to Rose by Johnny Cash. Party on, dudes.

Late junction on radio 3. It is absolutely nuts.

David Byrne's been on my stereo for two days running now and I'm still not tired of it...

David Byrne - Grown Backwards complete with covers of Lambchop and Verdi... just stunning, as per usual from Dumbarton's finest.

I'm watching the mighty (and Scotland's very own) David Byrne on Jools Holland, and he's in concert on bbc4 later...

I haven't heard much, but the one track I did hear sounded like she was singing a White Stripes song - which isn't a surprise, really, but it was damned good. I've gone back in the archives a couple of years to find Cobblestone Runway by Ron Sexsmith. And it's terrific.

I don't do holidays, I was travelling But it was just the best, honest to goodness San Francisco is the greatest city I have ever been to... You have no idea how depressing it was to leave S.F basking in 30 degree heat and then arrive in London 12 hours later (well 20 actually)in 11 degree rain. I could talk for hours about the last 6 weeks, but I'd just bore you!

I'm going through something of a country phase at the moment, was listening to Johnny Cash, Gene Clark, Flying Burrito Brothers and Gram Parsons a lot when I was in California. Incidentally, at opening game instead of playing "God Bless America" the San Francisco Giants played "This Land Is Your Land" by Woody Guthrie, which I thought was a classy touch.

Got myself Gene Clark's No Other the other week, and it really is fantastic. What with all the Gram Parsons coverage at the moment, and the South by Southwest festival, I've been in a country frame of mind. Also bought Load by Metallica at the same time. And it's surprisingly understated, believe it or not!

Bob Harris just played San Diego Seranade by Tom Waits, and it's just perfect.

Starsailor are butchering Neil Young's Harvest Moon on 6 music as we speak.....

Man, the video to Hurt had me in floods of tears. I never though Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails was capable of such powerful lyrics... When Johnny Cash sings "If I could start again, a million miles away/I would keep myself, I would find a way..." Heartbreaking stufff...

I just won myself a copy of "Once Upon A Time In Wigan", a collection of 24 classic Northern Soul tunes on Tom Robinson's 6 Music show. The Night, by Frankie Vallo and the Four Seasons is a top record.

Sting is a fuckwit. I just listened to Just a Minute on the constantly brilliant radio 4.

Gene Chandler - Duke of Earl. A heartbreaking two minutes of doo-wop.

The Man Who Loved Beer by Lambchop.